St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-10-13

committee to refuse all candidates for
the missionary work who are favorably
inclined to other views respecting the
heather that die without having
known the gospel, than those to which
the recently rejected candidates have
been required to subscribe.
These resolutions were presented
/. The board reaffirms the position
that neither this board nor the pru-
Dental committee is in any sense a
theological court, to settle dOctrinal
points of belief.
2. The board also specially ap-
proves and commends the statement of
the manual for missionary candidates
that at is a glorious fact that the
points which constitute emphatically
the message of missionaries to the
heather are those in which all evan
gelical bodies mainly agree" And it
would have it's missionaries always re-
member that they are sent to teach
and preach these essential truths OF
Christianity.
3. The missionaries of this board
shall have the same right of private
Judgment in the Interpretation of Gods
word, and the same freedom of thought
and of speech as are enjoyed by their
ministerial brethren in this country.
In the exercise of their rights they
should have constant and careful re-
gard to the work of their associates
and to the harmony and effectiveness
of the missions in which they labor.
A. All persons, otherwise we'll quail
flied, are to be regarded as acceptable
candidates for missionary appointment,
who heartily receive the fundamental
truths of the gospel, held in common
by the churches, sustaining the board
and ascertained by their actual usages.
The debate that followed the pr
sentatiOn of these reports was a nOta
BILE one, and when it was concluded
the minority report was defeated, 81
to 43, and the majority report, adher
ing to the Des Moines action, passed
viva vOce.
The nominating committee reported
as follows: For president, Rev. DR.. r.
S. Storrs; president, E. w. Blatch
ford secretaries, Drs. Clark, Alden
and Smith treasurer, LangdOn S.
Ward auditors, A. w. Tufts, James
NJ. Gordon, Joseph c. Tyler; and the
old prudential committee. The mi
nority report named Jas. p. B. Angel
of Michigan University for president
and Rev. George NJ. Boynton, of ia
maica Plain as home missionary in
place of DR.. Alden, and the addition of
Rev. DR.. Alexander Mckenzie to the
prudential committee. The majority
report was accepted and the PROPOSE
ton to increase the prudential COM
mittee was lost. All persons nOmi I
mated as corporate members were
elected.
Ex-GOv. Washburn's Sudden Death.
The sudden death of ex-GOv. Wash
burn was the tragic incident of We'd
nesday's meetings at the City hall.
The ex- governor and his wife arrived
from Greenfield at o'clock in the
morning. He hurried little on his
way to the City hall, and this may
have caused the sudden attack of heart
disease which caused his death. On
reaching the hall he went on the plat
form and was Immediately greeted by
several of his many friends. He had
been seated but Il few moments when
those near observed his head to sud
denly drop forward, and his body also
leaned forward. He was Instantly sur
rounded by anxious friends and carried |
to an ante room and laid on the sofa.
But almost at once the pulse of the ex-
governor had ceased to be felt and life
was extinct. Mrs. Washburn was sit
ting in the audience and the first news
she had of her husbands sickness was
it's announcement from the platform.
She FASTENED to his sie e, but death
must have ensued before she got there.
Gov. Washburn was highly esteemed,
and was a most amiable and lOvable
man. He was one of the leading Con-
gregatiOnalists in the Connecticut val
ley, and was one of the founders and
the first president of the Congregation
i'll club.